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Topic: top 10 books (Read 32956 times)

1. End of Eternity Isaac Asimov2. Red Mars series Kims Stanley Robinson3. Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Douglas Adams5. I, Robot Isaac Asimov6. Non-fiction books that bore Normal People Note: not a real book7. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger8. Animal Farm George Orwell9. 1984 Same, winds up on the bottom of my best book list, made it in half by the ending10. Roots Only historical fiction that I liked, Alex Haley. And he made up/plagiarized most of it!

I've been to Gambia on a school trip. We visited the village that Haley traced his origins too. Its been transformed by tourism. "If you pay X Dalasi you can have your picture taken with the chief, if you pay X Dalasi you can meet Haley's family, if you pay me ill give you my baby to hold and take a picture". It was also about 40C so most of our party were glad to see the back of that place.

Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander seriesDreadnought and Castles of Steel by Robert MassieMoneyball by Michael LewisShoot to Kill by Michael AsherMonte Cassino by Matthew ParkerThe Lord of the Rings

If you can get to read it if it's not required reading (And read it again if it originally was) then it's good, because I'm picky. I don't rank though.

Timeline I highly reccommend one does NOT ignore reading and just watch the movie, because the movie has only the character names, and where/when they go. The movie also includes the predestination paradox, which the book spends time proving doesn't exist (Well, technically, the Grandfather paradox, but that's the opposite, when one's disproven, so is the other) In fact, somewhere in the Naucean thread Hydro mentions how time travel works in nearly the same way.

Prey It's pretty cool, I was force fed it by my mom and read it in two countries (Free time during international/intercontinental school trip, or often used with travelling. I had nighmares with that and the sphere theater combined the next night)

Necro's gonna flame me but, The Harry Potter series. I like the read it's fun and light. I actually read the most recent while halfway through Timeline (Cuz that's when the book came out and I refuse to have endings spoiled, I spoil them for others, thank you very much) and kept on drawing sciencey parallels. I forgot them now, I need to redo it (Page 135... remember, that's when you broke from it.)

Meh, my other geekdom will show and I am now mentioning my favorite Manga Series, and the reason for most is they're pleasant diversions with memorable characters so I won't get them confused with one another, whether crossing-over or intra-comic (Though I still think Tomoyo and Ayame will one day doubleteam Sakura and Kisa)

Ok, I am nowhere near being able to make a top 10 for myself, I am way too lazy to think it through.Basically, anything by Terry Pratchett, Douglass Adams, Isaac Asimov, Iain Banks, Arthur C. Clark, Raymond E. Feist, J.R.R. Tolkien (of course), and I also like Anthony Horrowitz's kid-agent novels.